Three experiments are reported which clarify the role of movement-produced changes in visual stimulation for the acquisition of visually controlled behaviors. The first study shows that exposure during passive transport, which provides an asystematic relation between self-produced movements and visual stimulation, delays the acquisition of visual-motor coordination when a kitten is subsequently...

This study targets the behavior of shear buildings equipped with tuned liquid column dampers (TLCD) which attenuate dynamic load-induced vibrations. TLCDs are a passive damping system used in tall buildings. This kind of damper has proven to be very efficient, being an excellent alternative to mass dampers. A dynamic analysis of the structure-damper system was made using the software DynaPy, de...

Real-world tasks often require movements that depend on a previous action or on changes in the state of the world. Here we investigate whether motor memories encode the current action in a manner that depends on previous sensorimotor states. Human subjects performed trials in which they made movements in a randomly selected clockwise or counterclockwise velocity-dependent curl force field. Move...

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Language production studies tend to investigate central tendencies, though there are extensive individual differences in any production task. Studying this variability in behavior can be revealing of the motivations and consequences of production choices. In a picture-description task, participants used either active object or passive relative clauses to describe animate or inanimate entities i...

In this article, passive acoustic sensor network localization is presented and applied to geometry structure monitoring. The methodology relies on passive travel-time estimation, which is here defined as the retrieval of an inter-sensor propagation delay, using uncontrolled ambient sources in an homogeneous acoustic propagation medium. Our approach relates to passive linear systems identificati...

The passive construction in Tukang Besi demonstrates a striking break between the morphosyntactically coded properties of its argument and the syntactic privileges that are displayed (or, rather, not displayed) by that argument. An analysis in terms of very simple predicate logic is advanced that not only accounts for the passive data very simply, but makes a number of other surprising predicti...